Kaysville, Utah

History

Shortly after Latter Day Saint pioneers arrived in 1847, the Kaysville area, originally known as "Kay's Creek" or Kay's Ward, was settled by Hector Haight in 1847 as a farming community. He had been sent north to find feed for the stock and soon thereafter constructed a cabin and brought his family to settle the area. Farmington, Utah also claims Hector Haight as its original settler. Two miles north of Haight's original settlement, Samuel Holmes built a cabin in 1849 and was soon joined by other settlers from Salt Lake, namely Edward Phillips, John Green, and William Kay.

Although settlement began in 1847, the name of Kaysville connects with the fact that in 1851, William Kay was made the bishop in the vicinity by Brigham Young and Heber C. Kimball.

After the move south in 1858 (see Utah War), there was an attempt to rename the community "Freedom", but Brigham Young convinced the residents to retain the old name.

In 1868, Kaysville became the first city incorporated in Davis County.

An adobe meetinghouse was built in 1863. It was replaced by the Kaysville Tabernacle in 1914. In 1930, Kaysville had 992 people. Of those residents who were Latter-day Saints, they all were in the Kaysville Ward which also covered most of the rest of the Kaysville Precinct.

In 1977, United Airlines Flight 2860 crashed near Kaysville.

By 2008, there were seven Mormon stakes (similar to a diocese) in Kaysville.

In November 2009, Kaysville voters elected Steve Hiatt as Kaysville City's 38th mayor and the youngest mayor in Utah. He was sworn in on January 4, 2010. He was re-elected for a second four-year term in November 2013.

The current mayor, Tamara Tran, won the 2021 election with 59.95 percent of the popular vote over Jay Welk.

Geography

Kaysville is bordered by the city of Layton to the north, Fruit Heights to the east, and Farmington, the county seat, to the south. According to the United States Census Bureau, Kaysville has a total area of 27.2 sqkm, of which 0.1 sqkm, or 0.48%, is water.

Demographics

According to the 2020 United States census and 2020 American Community Survey, there were 32,945 people in Kaysville with a population density of 3,135.3 people per square mile (1,210.5/km2). Among non-Hispanic or Latino people, the racial makeup was 29,364 (89.1%) White, 178 (0.5%) African American, 83 (0.3%) Native American, 321 (1.0%) Asian, 114 (0.3%) Pacific Islander, 76 (0.2%) from other races, and 871 (2.6%) from two or more races. 1,938 (5.9%) people were Hispanic or Latino.

There were 16,469 (49.99%) males and 16,476 (50.01%) females, and the population distribution by age was 12,060 (36.6%) under the age of 18, 17,684 (53.7%) from 18 to 64, and 3,201 (9.7%) who were at least 65 years old. The median age was 29.9 years.

There were 8,958 households in Kaysville with an average size of 3.68, of which 7,844 (87.6%) were families and 1,114 (12.4%) were non-families. Among all families, 6,895 (77.0%) were married couples, 275 (3.1%) were male householders with no spouse, and 674 (7.5%) were female householders with no spouse. Among all non-families, 959 (10.7%) were a single person living alone, and 155 (1.7%) were two or more people living together. 4,685 (52.3%) of all households had children under the age of 18. 7,754 (86.6%) of households were owner-occupied while 1,204 (13.4%) were renter-occupied.

The median income for a Kaysville household was $103,730, and the median family income was $111,903, with a per-capita income of $34,514. The median income for males who were full-time employees was $81,057 and for females $44,205. 3.2% of the population and 3.4% of families were below the poverty line.

In terms of education attainment, out of the 17,847 people in Kaysville 25 years or older, 248 (1.4%) had not completed high school, 2,299 (12.9%) had a high school diploma or equivalency, 6,410 (35.9%) had some college or associate degree, 6,170 (34.6%) had a bachelor's degree, and 2,720 (15.2%) had a graduate or professional degree.

Points of interest

• Cherry Hill (amusement park)
• Davis High School
• The house where John Taylor died
• LeConte Stewart Artist Museum
• Utah Botanical Center
• Kay's Cross

Notable people

• Rob Bishop, congressman
• Henry H. Blood, seventh governor of Utah
• Mikayla Cluff, professional soccer player
• James Cowser, former NFL player
• Jaxson Dart, NFL quarterback for the New York Giants
• Floyd Gottfredson, cartoonist in the Will Eisner Award Hall of Fame
• Bode Hidalgo (né Davis), professional soccer player
• Jared Ward, Olympic marathon runner

References

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